that's amazing....where did you get the money???
My dad had a junk 72 Maverick, and I pulled the engine from that. I worked for him summers, weekends and breaks doing plumbing. We had to work on and service the backhoe, dump truck and trailer, mostly on weekends so he could work all week. That's where I learned to work on things, as I was his helper since I was out of diapers. I earned the money for all the parts, and machine work at Chix in Marietta. I bought forged pistons, had it bored and honed, everything balanced, and used 351W heads. Bought a cam, lifters, springs, and Hooker headers from Super Shops. I took a Holley 750 double pumper from one of his old cars, and put it on an F4B intake. I smoked the clutch on my first run, brand new clutch, pressure plate and surfaced flywheel right in the garbage. I found a used TCI reverse shift C4 trans with a 3000 stall and swapped it out. He did buy me a car that I did not ever pay for, but I was able to do the rest working.
all at 15!! amazing
Bless your heart.........I didn't have much either at that age. I was working 3 jobs in the summerI had a subscription to Car Craft magazine
Pretty much yes. I lived in the engine bay, constantly working on it making changes and improvements. It was sort of dangerous because it had drums all around and I had to have plenty of room to slow down.
